Monique Wild

What does collaboration really look like, feel like, and how does it really work? Three middle school teachers, who as a team, won the Disney Teacher of the Year Award, describe the formation of a dynamic teaching team that is able to make a major difference in their school. How does a team get beyond the business of the day, the barriers, and the mundane to really work together on the improvement of teaching and learning? This book is worth the read to ascertain how this particular team succeeds and their recommendations for the rest of us. No longer in the school together, I wondered how much involvement other specialists had in their success, because they really don’t mention the impact of either the library or the teacher librarian. Checking with their teacher librarian, I find that there is a bit of collaboration going on. One wishes there were more – more opportunities for all the specialists in the school to realize that even the best teacher teams can improve with the ideas from others. This book is worth reading because so many strategies discussed will work elsewhere with local adaptations. Highly recommended.… (més)